#USA_stock futures edged higher Monday, with investors looking forward to more corporate earrings as well as key consumer inflation data. Here are some of the biggest premarket U.S. stock movers today: #Intel (NASDAQ:#INTC) stock rose 1.2% after the WSJ reported that the tech giant was in advanced talks with Apollo Global Management (NYSE:#APO) for the manufacture of […]

  #Vladimir_Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise the defence budget and harness greater innovation to win in #Ukraine. More than two years into the conflict, which has cost both sides heavy casualties, Putin proposed

  #Inflation data from the world’s three #largest economies  #China, the #United_States and euro zone – sets the tone for world #markets this week, and Asia gets the ball rolling on Monday following the April figures out of #Beijing at the weekend. The general market #backdrop on Monday should be positive with a U.S. interest

  #Japan’s #economy likely contracted an annualised 1.5% in the January-March quarter as all key drivers of growth slumped due to an uncertain outlook, a Reuters poll showed, which will probably set back #Bank_of_Japan efforts to raise interest rates. Cabinet Office data due out at 8:50 a.m. on May 16 (2350 GMT on May 15)

  #Quarterly #earnings #reports from #Chinese #e_commerce giants #Alibaba (NYSE:#BABA) and #JD (NASDAQ:#JD).com this week will be closely watched as barometers for the mood of consumers in the world’s second-largest economy. Both firms, which combined account for about 69% of #China’s e-commerce market revenue, according to DBS estimates, have faced increasing competition in recent years